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Have you tried to operate an excavator? That thing is complicated compared to a car... But you know what? That is specialist tool. If you cannot operate with specialist tools you should not get a job of a specialist.

I just had to write that rant out: https://wordpress.com/post/squarebits.wordpress.com/76

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I'm quite adept at driving an excavator. I can pour wine out of the bucket of an excavator. It's quite easy with practice because muscle memory kicks in.

But if excavators were as hard to use as git, I'd never have mastered them.

I wouldn't say "programmers who use version control" are a group of people who would qualify as "specialists". Especially since all programmers should be using version control. It should be a fundamental skill necessary to entering the field.

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